Claudia Cervantes-Soon

This Third Edition of this now classic text offers up-to-date guidance for transforming policies and practices to improve the education of emergent bilinguals. In this updated edition, Ofelia García and Jo Anne Kleifgen are joined by Claudia Cervantes-Soon to bring forth a just vision for the education of language-minoritized students in the United States. The authors use accessible language to introduce policies, programs, research, and practices to equitably educate these students. This widely used textbook has been expanded to explore the potential of translanguaging and the promises and pitfalls of Artificial Intelligence. It also addresses the harmful role that colonialism and raciolinguistic ideologies play, offering guidance for transforming policies and practices to improve the education of emergent bilinguals. Updated chapters consider the theoretical constructs, empirical evidence, and pedagogical practices related to the five most important aspects of the education of emergent bilinguals in K–12 classrooms: language and literacy considerations; curriculum and pedagogy; family and community engagement; assessment; and digital technologies and learning. Readers will find innovative recommendations to help them imagine the possibilities and make changes that will transform education for some of the most disadvantaged students. Book Features: Highlights the importance of leveraging all the linguistic and cultural practices of emergent bilinguals. Provides succinct descriptions of alternative practices for transforming our schools and students' futures. Uncovers the deleterious effects of not only colonialism, but also capitalism, patriarchy, and racism. Considers the social cataclysms, including a global pandemic, that have affected minoritized communities, as well as teachers and students. Explores the development of new technologies that are altering the ways in which we educate children.

This Third Edition of this now classic text offers up-to-date guidance for transforming policies and practices to improve the education of emergent bilinguals. In this updated edition, Ofelia García and Jo Anne Kleifgen are joined by Claudia Cervantes-Soon to bring forth a just vision for the education of language-minoritized students in the United States. The authors use accessible language to introduce policies, programs, research, and practices to equitably educate these students. This widely used textbook has been expanded to explore the potential of translanguaging and the promises and pitfalls of Artificial Intelligence. It also addresses the harmful role that colonialism and raciolinguistic ideologies play, offering guidance for transforming policies and practices to improve the education of emergent bilinguals. Updated chapters consider the theoretical constructs, empirical evidence, and pedagogical practices related to the five most important aspects of the education of emergent bilinguals in K–12 classrooms: language and literacy considerations, curriculum and pedagogy, family and community engagement, assessment, and digital technologies and learning. Readers will find innovative recommendations to help them imagine the possibilities and make changes that will transform education for some of the most disadvantaged students. Book Features: Highlights the importance of leveraging all the linguistic and cultural practices of emergent bilinguals. Provides succinct descriptions of alternative practices for transforming our schools and students' futures. Uncovers the deleterious effects of not only colonialism, but also capitalism, patriarchy, and racism. Considers the social cataclysms, including a global pandemic, that have affected minoritized communities, as well as teachers and students. Explores the development of new technologies that are altering the ways in which we educate children.

This unique volume brings together findings from six separate but interconnected studies, carried out over seven years in the same small bilingual elementary school. During a period of rapid gentrification in Austin, Texas, Hillside Elementary transformed from a predominantly Latinx, under-resourced and under-enrolled neighborhood school with a transitional bilingual program to a two-way dual language bilingual education (TWBE) school with a waiting list of middle-class families from across the school district. Chapter authors entered the context as researchers at various points along the timeline, with varied theoretical lenses, research questions, and methodological approaches. Most authors have also been parents or teachers at the school, and all were deeply invested in the school community and the education of bilingual students. They come together to argue that in order for a TWBE school to serve marginalized bilingual and BIPOC children and families, it must work collectively toward critical consciousness. Educators, parents, and students must learn to center the cultural, linguistic and racial/ethnic identities of marginalized families, and engage in ongoing dialogue at every level. The culminating product is a theme with variations: one context, one phenomenon, multiple varied positionalities and perspectives.